In the current issue of the Scunthorpe Telegraph (now on sale) there's a two-page feature about cricket in Brigg headed 'Gentlemen who lost at cricket bought dinner for the other team'.
It appears in the newly-launched eight-page weekly Nostalgia supplement, for which we are sourcing all the content - pictures and articles.
Former Brigg Town batsman Lee Fielden provided a good deal of information by way of local newspaper cuttings going back to the early 19th century when Brigg Cricket Club was in its infancy.
Since we wrote that, Lee has provided further details of a 'remarkable and sensational cricket match' played in Brigg during 1894.
It saw Brigg score 135 for nine wickets against Hull Town Reserves (2nd XI) and then bowl out the visitors for just FIVE runs - the lowest team total ever made in a match in our town, according to the newspaper report.
The first five Hull batsmen failed to make even a single between them.
Hull being 5 all-out was down to two bowlers - Barley taking five for one and Quickfall four for none.
The other four runs were extras.
Harper helped the cause with 'two good catches'.
Back in the 1980s we took part in a Brigg Town Cricket Club home match at Sir John Nelthorpe School in which we were dismissed for 19.
That's the lowest total we can recall - in Brigg - by the current club, which started out in 1974.
The feature in the current issue of the Telegraph includes half-a-dozen period pictures showing Brigg in the 19th century.
PICTURED ABOVE: Holland Park, off Station Road, where Brigg Cricket Club had its ground in the 19th end early 20th centuries.
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